Is Pearl Harbor a Film of Propaganda?
Welcome to Open Form, a weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they...
Lit Hub Daily: May 19, 2022
TODAY: In 1895, British Army officer and Scottish war poet Charles Sorley is born. Also on Lit Hub:...
Phil Klay on Rebuilding the American Citizen in an Age of Endless, Invisible War
Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological...
Steve Paul and Henry Schvey on How Evan S. Connell and Tennessee Williams Never Really Left Missouri
Journalist and biographer Steve Paul and writer and Washington University professor Henry Schvey join host Whitney Terrell live from the Unbound Book Festival...
Jhumpa Lahiri: Why Is Italo Calvino So Beloved Outside Italy?
To speak of Italo Calvino’s popularity outside of Italy is to speak of Calvino in translation, given that he has been read and loved abroad in other...
Annie Harnett on What Living in a Cemetery Meant to Her Novel
This week on The Maris Review, Annie Hartnett joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her latest novel, Unlikely Animals, out now from Ballantine Books. Subscribe and...
How Growing Up In the Digital Age Impacts Young Minds
Ryan was four years old when he started unboxing toys on camera in 2015. A few years later—assisted by his mother, who left her job as a high school teacher...
How Section 230 Shields Platforms from Accountability for What Their Users Post
Nowhere is freedom of expression as safeguarded as in the US, and nowhere has online speech been more freewheeling. The First Amendment was already a high...
When Sidney Poitier Went to the Moscow Film Festival
The Cold War and the contest of ideas with the Soviet Union were high on USIA’s agenda as I made plans to lead the American delegation to the 1963 Moscow...
